first space is not 3d but 4d, chance that two civilizations with electro-magnetic communication systems collide in space-time is somehow very thin. + frame of air full communication with electro-magnetic signal, according to our own history, is itself very short. what we see for us is : 1950's, start of massive air broadcast, 2010's communications go underground with fiber optics and wired networks. air broadcasting is already diminishing, ask tower companies about their business models today...
so finding this alien needle in a haystack might be just waste of time & ressources no ?
I personally did that two years ago. I was in a big company, working on nice project with nice guys, well paid, 11 weeks of holidays per year (I'm French, of course) with all the money project required.
But a private equity fund bought the company and slashed it for profit. Ambiance fell down, project became crap. I was asked to work on a technology I don't like and my work turned boring. I was a project manager then, so I quit and hopefully found rapidly a new job, I was lucky. It was 20% cut for my salary, 4 weeks less for holidays and I stepped down to simple programmer. But I accepted it because it was on a technology I like very much (AS3, I know, I know) and things would turn dramatically more simple for me, I needed a break.
What happened then ? Sure I am not that comfortable I was in the big company, we are always overwhelmed and job is hard, but after two years I found myself as the production manager of the company and I get to office every morning the smile on my face and happy to go. And I love again pissing my PHP/SQL/AS3 code.
I choose Avira three years ago after reading a comparaison test found on the net. Seemed to be tested quite honestly done by triggering attacks with several types of viruses. Avira went first but it was three years ago. I swapped from Avast that was a bit too fat for my system, Avira turned to be quite light with it.
But today I would not be able to say which one is the best. So far so good, with Avira, no virus detected on my machine, thanks to it, to my firewalls (routers & desktop) and my surval habits on the net.
My father was into it, working on IBM 390 systems and I was eager to get my own computer, to see how it worked and to know how people could program it.
When we received the beast (ZX81) my father just spent a few hours showing me trivias about variables, for-loops and simple input / outputs. That was it.
Then it was just a question of personnal interest, that turned into passion, finaly. Later then the adult can help from time to time or give tips, perpectives, etc.
So my idea is that plain simple basic might be enough. May be just an old VB or a simple PHP sandbox. OOP, web technos can wait a bit. Just start with the 101 and look how your kid responds.
Hope this helps,
F.
I was once working in an astrophysical lab where people there said that half of the brain would be burnt by radiations during a flight to Mars.
But that would not be not a problem, there would be enough for coming back.
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Just finished 1Q84 by Murakami Aruki but now I started a very old scientific book :
"Wave and corpuscle - Ondulatory mechanic" by Louis de Broglie, 1945.
And mentaly disabled ones too...
really got to put this oestrogena bomb in production now...
first space is not 3d but 4d, chance that two civilizations with electro-magnetic communication systems collide in space-time is somehow very thin.
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frame of air full communication with electro-magnetic signal, according to our own history, is itself very short. what we see for us is : 1950's, start of massive air broadcast, 2010's communications go underground with fiber optics and wired networks. air broadcasting is already diminishing, ask tower companies about their business models today...
so finding this alien needle in a haystack might be just waste of time & ressources no ?
Yes, but the radioactive mutated kinda invadors are the new thing...
Yeah, move on if you can.
I personally did that two years ago.
I was in a big company, working on nice project with nice guys, well paid, 11 weeks of holidays per year (I'm French, of course) with all the money project required.
But a private equity fund bought the company and slashed it for profit. Ambiance fell down, project became crap. I was asked to work on a technology I don't like and my work turned boring. I was a project manager then, so I quit and hopefully found rapidly a new job, I was lucky. It was 20% cut for my salary, 4 weeks less for holidays and I stepped down to simple programmer. But I accepted it because it was on a technology I like very much (AS3, I know, I know) and things would turn dramatically more simple for me, I needed a break.
What happened then ?
Sure I am not that comfortable I was in the big company, we are always overwhelmed and job is hard, but after two years I found myself as the production manager of the company and I get to office every morning the smile on my face and happy to go. And I love again pissing my PHP/SQL/AS3 code.
Hope it helps,
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I choose Avira three years ago after reading a comparaison test found on the net. Seemed to be tested quite honestly done by triggering attacks with several types of viruses.
Avira went first but it was three years ago. I swapped from Avast that was a bit too fat for my system, Avira turned to be quite light with it.
But today I would not be able to say which one is the best. So far so good, with Avira, no virus detected on my machine, thanks to it, to my firewalls (routers & desktop) and my surval habits on the net.
Based on personal memories
My father was into it, working on IBM 390 systems and I was eager to get my own computer, to see how it worked and to know how people could program it.
When we received the beast (ZX81) my father just spent a few hours showing me trivias about variables, for-loops and simple input / outputs. That was it.
Then it was just a question of personnal interest, that turned into passion, finaly. Later then the adult can help from time to time or give tips, perpectives, etc.
So my idea is that plain simple basic might be enough. May be just an old VB or a simple PHP sandbox. OOP, web technos can wait a bit. Just start with the 101 and look how your kid responds.
Hope this helps,
F.
I was once working in an astrophysical lab where people there said that half of the brain would be burnt by radiations during a flight to Mars. But that would not be not a problem, there would be enough for coming back.
should not it be : start /b /low [job] ?